Cover foe baskets



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O 0 e W. R. BOERNER.

. COVER FOR BASKETS.

No. 259,266. Patented June 6, 1882.

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NHED STATES WUNIBALD It. BOERNEB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF TO GOTTHOLD FRED BINDER, OF SAME PLACE.

COVER FOR BASKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,266, dated June 6,1882.

Application filed February 16, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WUNIBALD R. Bonn- NER, of the city of Chicago,county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certainImprovements in Covers for Baskets, of which the. following is aspecification.'

The object of my invention is to provide a cover for baskets, boxes,barrels, and like receptacles for sugar, crackers, fruits, and otherarticles which may be exhibited to the view of customers in and aboutmarkets and stores, such cover to be' provided with a'cheap and simplelatching device, and be made of wirecloth, wire-gauze, or wire-netting,or slats of any suitable material, and having a suitable frame, so thatit will protect the contents of the vessel against pilferers, and at thesame time render them so fully visible that customers may judge of theircharacter and quality without removing the cover. I have accomplishedthat object by means of the cover and latching device hereinafterdescribed with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1represents a perspective from a point above of a cover and a part of therim of a basket or barrel, showing the ear 0 extended through the handleB of the basket and latched in position; and Fig. 2, a plan ofthroughthe small loops or rings 0 c, which confine and guide their motion,andtheir extremities are bent into eyes i, to inclose and slide upon twoadjacent wires, m, of the cover, extending across the same, as shown, sothat when unlatched the ear (3 can be run into and out of the handle Bof the containing vessel at pleasure.

The latch H is made of a single piece of wire, bent into the form shown,with eyes L (No model.)

upon the ends to inclose one of the wires, W, extending at right anglesto the ones upon which the ear 0 slides, so that it will turn freelyback and forth to fasten or unfasten the ear 0, and at its free end itis provided with a loop, D, which, when the ear is to be latched, isbrought down between the wires upon which the ear 0 is mounted withforce enough to spring them asunder a little, so that they will grasp itbetween them with sufficient force to hold it in place as required, andthe wire is so bent at the points L L on either side that when it is inposition, as shown in Fig. 1, and an attempt is made to slide the ear Ginward, the points L L act as stops and abut directly 6 5 against theeyes ion the two ends of the wire composing ear 0 and hold the ear inposition. By turning the latch back, as itis shown to be in Fig. 2, theear 0 will be free to move inward.

In the drawings the cover is shown to bein a circular form,corresponding with the form of the contaiuingvessel,upon the rim ofwhich it rests, and flat; but it is obvious thatit may be dome-shaped,and that my improved cover may be adapted to a vessel having three ormore sides, as well as to one having a circular form, and, moreover,upon a great many kinds of such receptacles varying in both form andmaterial; and also the form of the ear 0 may be varied to suit therequirements of the containing vessel.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- 1. The movable ear 0, having the two ends of the wire of which itis composed bent nearly 8 straight, and their ends bent into eyes 6around wires m and guided by rings 0, adapted to slide back and forthand fasten and unfasteu the cover, substantially as described.

2. The latching device H, hinged to the crosswire V by the eyes L at oneend and having the loop D and the two stops L at the other end, incombination with and adapted to lock the movable ear 0 in position inthe handle of the containing vessel when required, substan- 5 tially asdescribed.

WUNIBALD R. BOERNER.

Witnesses:

J. G. HURZAGH, J N0. V. HAIR.

